https://www.visorcraft.com/news/tags/linux/Recent content in Linux on VisorCraft NewsHugoen-USSun, 02 Aug 2026 09:30:00 -0500https://www.visorcraft.com/news/2026/08/database-client-with-ssh-tunnel/Sun, 02 Aug 2026 09:30:00 -0500https://www.visorcraft.com/news/2026/08/database-client-with-ssh-tunnel/<p>If you work with real infrastructure for more than a month, every database you care about ends up behind a bastion host, because nobody with their name on the firewall rules exposes 5432 to the internet, and yet the default workflow for reaching that database from a desktop GUI is still a ritual from 2005: open a terminal, type an <code>ssh -L</code> incantation you half-remember, leave the terminal open forever, point your database client at <code>localhost:15432</code>, and hope nobody reboots the jump box mid-join.</p>